Buffalo News

By Phil Dzikiy Come hungry. The second-largest food festival in the country returns this weekend as five dozen restaurants and hundreds of thousands of eaters converge on Delaware Avenue and Niagara Square for the Taste of Buffalo.

A Buffalo church is on alert after a device, believed to be a pipe-bomb, was thrown inside it over-night. No one was hurt, but the pastor of Redeemer Fire Fellowship Church on Lewis Street, says it could have been deadly.

Buffalo is celebrating it's rich ties with Europe. Many different customs and cultures define the Queen City and western New York.

Three morning fires occurred within a half-hour this morning, each less than one mile of the others in Buffalo.

The corner of Delaware and Hertel avenues in North Buffalo wasn't a very safe place to be overnight.

Mayor Byron W. Brown today announced the formation of a summer youth program aimed at promoting the city's new recycling outreach project.

Mayor Byron W. Brown has ousted the embattled president of Buffalo's main development agency, saying the move is about "change and reform." Brown confirmed today that he asked for Brian Reilly's resignation as president of the Buffalo Economic Renaissance Corp.

Ignoring the legal advice of the state's top lawyer, Gov. David A. Paterson tapped a downstate attorney as lieutenant governor Wednesday to help break the month-old stalemate in the State Senate.

Spurred by the fatal Colgan Air crash near Buffalo, New York, in February, the Federal Aviation Administration plans to tighten its regulations, coming up with new flight and rest rules for airlines and requiring that airlines obtain all available FAA pilot records, among other actions.

Since coming taking office in 2006, Mayor Brown's City Hall has been the target of numerous allegations of incompetent, unscrupulous, illegal and questionable behavior.

Folks have been grousing about Mickey Kearns' lackluster, at best, mayoral campaign, but on Monday the South Buffalo councilman took off the gloves about the Brown administration leaning on City Hall employees to work on Byron Brown's re-election campaign.

I've got a story running today that provides a glimpse into how Byron Brown and Steve Casey are leaning on the City Hall work force to work on the mayor's re-election campaign.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher recently picked up an addition $90,000 a year by declining a Manhattan apartment and Chancellor's apartment in Albany called for in her contract.

A photo exhibit at Grant Street Gallery compares Buffalo's devestated blocks to post-Katrina New Orleans In March 2006, Clark Dever, a Buffalo-based photojournalist and activist, recruited 65 of his fellow UB undergraduates to travel to New Orleans during their spring break to take part in the ongoing relief effort.

The drama that unfolded at Fort Niagara that sultry summer night in 1759 would end with the French officers running up the flag of surrender to the British at the garrison known as the House of Peace.

A 4-year-old boy was struck by a car Friday afternoon on River Road but miraculously survived without severe injuries.

Following weeks of speculation, Governor Paterson and Senator Charles Schumer announced Tuesday that yes, indeed, Yahoo! will build a new data center in Western New York.

The New York State Insurance Department said it has distributed more than $48.5 million to fire departments and districts statewide - including $277,430 to Buffalo - from a program that taxes foreign insurers that write fire insurance in the state.

Fire officials say a carelessly discarded cigarette ignited a blaze that destroyed a building at a Buffalo marina and damaged several boats.

Buffalo detectives have arrested a suspect in the beating death of 15-year-old Sudanese refugee Kowat Rual, whose body was found at the edge of a canoe launch June 9. Julian L. Christopher, 21, of Zelmer Street, was arrested Thursday morning and confessed to Kowat's killing, police said in a news conference this afternoon.